The Australia Council's Digital Culture initiative supports artistic projects exploring liveness, connectivity and participation made possible with new digital platforms.

They encourage proposals for innovative digital culture projects with:

• Artists and audiences co-creating new forms of live experience
• Experimentation across platforms and to engage diverse communities with creative practice
• Inventive strategies for live collaboration, presentation and distribution of artwork.

The Australia Council invites proposals from artists who are experienced working with digital technology, who may work with visual, sound, performance, literary or interdisciplinary arts, artistic games or transmedia experiences. Applicants can be unknown, emerging or established makers, applying as an individual or a collective.

Your project timeline may include research and/or creative development, but must include a public presentation of new work in 2011. You can apply for up to $40,000 from the Digital Culture Fund. Securing co-funding and establishing partnerships to make your project viable would be an advantage.

For further information visit the Digital Culture Fund website.

You can find out further information on the 2009 pilot Digital Culture Fund and the Arts content for the digital era strategy on the Arts Digital Era blog.

Applications close Monday 22 November. Projects may start from March 2011, but must end before 31 December 2011.

All applicants are encouraged to contact Inter-Arts staff to discuss proposals before applying. Phone (02) 9215 9116 or toll-free: 1800 226 912, or email Inter-Arts.

Home page image: Keith Armstrong and Chris Barker, Knowmore (House of Commons), 2009 - courtesy of the Australia Council's Inter-arts website.